Perdition Quotes

“so we”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Do you ever wonder what our life would be like if Sarah hadn’t done what she’d done…if you hadn’t had that emotional affair with her?” That question…it was one he’d been waiting for her to ask. And so he gave her the answer that had been weighing on his heart. “We’d still be living a half-life, me being listless, pridefully ignorant of your needs, and you’d still be reaching out for me, waiting for me to step the fuck up and be the husband and father you needed me to be.” “So you’re saying that everything we went through was for our own good?” Emily asked, her expression pensive. “Come on, you have to admit we were both drifting, living in limbo, waiting for the other one to throw a rope over the divide and brave the gap.” Em rolled her eyes, huffing. “So you’re saying that we’d be worse off if Sarah hadn’t stuck her tits in our marriage.” Grabbing her shoulders, he turned her to face him. “Even the strongest metals are made even stronger when put to the fire.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Thank you, my Bloom, for letting this asshole be your husband again,” he said, not as a triumph but as a contented fact—two people who had chosen one another, day after day, until choosing felt less like an action and more like a state of being.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“It had been six months since the night she’d decided—against her best judgment—to forgive him.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“She’d known that he’d been ignoring her, neglecting her, but she’d never thought he was happy while he was doing those things—but that’s what it sounded like.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“I admit, being with Sarah was fun. And when I wasn’t playing the protector, I could just be myself without the worry that comes with being committed to her. There were no strings, no ties to her that couldn’t just be brushed away. Nothing serious. Nothing lasting. And I was okay with that…and every time I answered her text but left yours on read, and every time I answered her calls but sent you to voicemail, and every time I chatted with her at the bar then went to bed in the clubhouse instead of coming home…I was choosing her over you. And little by little, I was betraying our marriage.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“They staged an intervention last week…and I didn’t take it too well.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Mads choked out. “I think that was the night I started to pull away; I realized that you’d already put so much space between us, and I was so tired of trying to shout over the gulf, that I just…gave up.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“She gasped, then groaned when he pressed his hardness against her aching core.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Don’t feel bad for him, baby. I saved his life, so this is a life debt, one he’ll gladly pay.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Later that night, after their fourth round of love making, spent and warm and wholly satisfied, the time for conversation had come…though she wasn’t quite ready for that conversation yet.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“He woke her again in the night, and the worship began once more.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“After, when motions slowed and the need for action itself ebbed, they remained wrapped in a small, warm island. Mads wrapped an arm around Emily’s shoulders; she tucked her head against his chest,”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“As my goddess demands,” he rasped. And then he was kissing her, touching her…. Their kisses began as whispers, soft, asking rather than claiming.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“He laughed that sexy-as-hell laugh again, then drawled, low and rumbly, “I think I like BBS.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Reaching out to her, he raised his hand, waiting for her to take it. “Let’s go home, baby.” She dropped her gaze to his hand, hesitant, but finally, she took it. A small battle won. But the fight for his marriage was far from over.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Tonight, he would be getting his woman back. Fuck giving her space; space is part of what started it all”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“I remember that she was nice, and she had always made me smile. She hadn’t deserved that. That cop made me want to be one one day.” That’s probably when his cougar kink started, too.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“You really are too much, Cluster,” Emily said, smiling.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Tornado would glower and brood like a proper introvert.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Cilla piped up, “You didn’t count on Frost being a loyal man, especially to his wife.” Lord, that hit harder than anything Em heard that day. Frost…a loyal man. And he was…he just lost his way. Just like she had.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“she was too busy glaring at Em who had just taken Frost’s hand in hers, linking their fingers together. His hand was so big, so capable, so warm, and squeezed her fingers—their own personal signal that things would be okay, that their strength was shared. This feels....”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Sarah’s shrill voice calling for Frost shattered their special moment. Nothing new there.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Warwick was the perfect blend of his father and mother—all of Mads’s protectiveness and strength, and all of Emily’s compassion and insightfulness. He would make an amazing therapist…or bartender.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“…just a fucking tree….”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“You’re the one who told her it was just a fucking tree! You’re the one who made it seem like that tree, that place, those moments with her meant nothing.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“And she’d further shown him the error of his ways by cutting down their tree. He still couldn’t wrap his mind nor his heart around that. Around the brutal finality of that action.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“That momentary euphoria that felt good in the moment but then would wear off, requiring him to see her again to get that high once more.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“but he was emotionally intelligent enough to know what limerence was,”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“I think you should meet with him, at least hear him out, and tell him about the shit Sarah said.”
― Eve Black, Perdition